"Brazil bows to no one": the official reaction to Milei's speech in São Paulo
Workers' Party president Edinho Silva was the first to speak out, in a statement released hours after the event at the Pacaembú stadium. “Brazil is a democratic and sovereign country,” he said, noting that Brazilian democracy allows for the debate of ideas and that no authority is above criticism, provided it is made in the appropriate manner and at the appropriate time. He considered it “inadmissible,” however, for a foreign head of state to come to the country and address its constituted powers in disrespectful terms.
- ▪Workers' Party president Edinho Silva was the first to speak out, in a statement released hours after the event at the Pacaembú stadium.
- ▪“Brazil is a democratic and sovereign country,” he said, noting that Brazilian democracy allows for the debate of ideas and that no authority is above criticism, provided it is made in the appropriate manner and at the appropriate time.
- ▪He considered it “inadmissible,” however, for a foreign head of state to come to the country and address its constituted powers in disrespectful terms.
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“Brazil bows to no one”: the official reaction to Milei's speech in São Paulo Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 22:20 UTC Full article 0 comments (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); STF President Luiz Edson Fachin signed a note on behalf of the court describing Milei's remarks as a “disrespectful reference” to a justice of the country's highest court Brazil's government and the leadership of its judiciary responded on Saturday to the speech by Argentine President Javier Milei at the convention that formalized Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential candidacy, in which he sharply criticized Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and disparaged a Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice.
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